World vol. 10 no. 2305

An Old Mormon city in Missouri.
[From the Hamilton, News.]
Last week we visited the rains of the ancient city of the Latter Day Saints. About thirty years ago the Mormons took forcible possession of a tract of land about two miles square, situated on the bluffs of Grand River, in Daviess County, Missouri, intending to erect temples of worship, &c. They laid out the city of Diamond, and in a short time had congregated several hundred devotees. They subsisted by depre-dations committed upon the people of the adjacent country. From the settlers who were co-existent with them, we learn that the Mormons took posses-sion of the dwellings located, within their chosen spot of earth, and burned the dwellings of those in immediate proximity to them. They pretended that, through revelations made to them, they knew that to be the veritable Garden of Eden. That here repose the remains of Adam. There are indeed some striking peculiarities in this spot of ground, one of the chief products of which is an endless amount of crab apples, which to them, perhaps, answers to the "forbidden fruit." But of the city, nothing but its ruins remain. Their cemetery is now a cornfield.

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An Old Mormon city in Missouri.
[From the Hamilton, News.]
Last week we visited the rains of the ancient city of the Latter Day Saints. About thirty years ago the Mormons took forcible possession of a tract of land about two miles square, situated on the bluffs of Grand River, in Daviess County, Missouri, intending to erect temples of worship, &c. They laid out the city of Diamond, and in a short time had congregated several hundred devotees. They subsisted by depre-dations committed upon the people of the adjacent country. From the settlers who were co-existent with them, we learn that the Mormons took posses-sion of the dwellings located, within their chosen spot of earth, and burned the dwellings of those in immediate proximity to them. They pretended that, through revelations made to them, they knew that to be the veritable Garden of Eden. That here repose the remains of Adam. There are indeed some striking peculiarities in this spot of ground, one of the chief products of which is an endless amount of crab apples, which to them, perhaps, answers to the "forbidden fruit." But of the city, nothing but its ruins remain. Their cemetery is now a cornfield.